Game Review 2008-09-03

The Great Chocolate Chase - Yummy...

Well you'd better not be hungry when you start playing this game. The Great Chocolate Chase is a new delicious time-management game from Zemnott, Inc and PlayFirst. Another warning is get some chocolate before you play it because you are going to want some afterwards for sure.

You are to travel all around the world making all kinds of chocolate products for your customers.

You play as Evangeline Baumeister who
runs confectionaries all over the world. So she travels from one lace
to another in order to check the work of the new machines, invented by
Klaus Werner.

She is to spend several days in every
location. Whe she starts her work there, the places look quite bad and
poor. But step-by-step she earns more money, gets new clients, buys new
equipment and ungrades the look of the place.

The game offers two modes: Story and
Endless. In the story mode you get information about the confectionary
conditions, people she meets, some details for the next day etc.

The Endless mode is just a total high-speed chocolate making process.

The game takes lots of clicking as you rush from one place to another fulfilling numerous orders.

The main process reminds any other
time-management game. You have customers coming in, making their orders
and hopefully paying you well.

When a customer gets in you are to give
him or her a menu. Then knowing the order you go to the machine you
need. Some of the machines just get the things ready themselves - all
you need to do is wait for them to refill. These are good ones.

The rest of them is not as helpful. You
do everything yourself. And it wouldn't be that bad if you didn't have
to click for putting then for preparing and then for taking it in order
to take it further. Lots of clicking makes it crazy.

The good thing is that you have a special
table where you can keep the stuff prepares in advance - very usefull,
and you can use your two hands to carry things.

In between the days you get to the store to buy different kinds of ugrades. You upgrade your equipement, skills and decoration.